Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARCHBISHOP GRIFFIN OF WESTMINSTER, SAYS TIME, FEB. 11, IS A "VIRTUAL MUST AT THE NEXT CONSISTORY." HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT HE DIED IN 1956, AND THAT HE WAS RAISED TO THE RANKS OF THE SACRED COLLEGE...
...apostolic delegate to Great Britain 15 years ago, Godfrey had such high praise for Bernard Griffin, then Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, that Griffin was elevated to Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal. Though ten years Godfrey's junior. Cardinal Griffin was ailing for years,* and when he died last August, Godfrey was his obvious successor. At Westminster Cathedral's three-hour ceremony of enthronement this week, he pointed out that the Communist denial of God's fatherhood "means in effect the denial of the brotherhood of mankind." In Britain, "which is professedly Christian . . . in many ways men have...
...revealed only recently that Cardinal Griffin suffered his first heart attack when he was not yet twenty, while serving in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I. He concealed it from the medical authorities at first, however, and avoided a discharge which he feared might prevent his acceptance for the priesthood...
Reason No. 2 : there are only ten vacancies in the College. Since three red hats are virtual musts at the next consistory-to Archbishops Griffin of Westminster, Koenig of Vienna and Montini of Milan-there would be only seven vacancies to fill many demands for new cardinals. Thus it would be wiser to wait till more openings occur. "There are several cardinals of advanced age," as one prelate put it delicately, "and despite the most charitable hopes, they cannot last much longer...
...know, one of these days, ole Marvin Griffin is going to learn his lesson and get some sense. If he doesn't, they're going to bury him head down, and when that trumpet sounds, he's going to find himself going further the wrong way. I want every person who prays to call Marvin Griffin's name to God, and I want you to say, 'Lord, I'm talking about the Marvin Griffin who is governor of Georgia,' so there won't be any mistake...